Symfony Messenger: the sharpest tool in your PHP toolbox

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A concrete migration story: Symfony Messenger replaces a homemade MySQL job table that caused about two hours of replica lag and deletes thousands of LOC, wires to RabbitMQ (or DB transports), and proves useful for delays, routing and a failed transport to park messages. Defaults matter: default 3 retries with exponential backoff and per-transport serializers force choices; tests use the in-memory transport with JSON serializer plus fallback to PHP serialized format; consumers run in Docker/Kubernetes with memory limits and a restart wrapper and autoscaling.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:28Fatweb lessons learned
3. 7:57Custom queue struggles
4. 13:42SymfonyCon discovery
5. 20:06Symfony Messenger basics
6. 24:23Retries and failure handling
7. 28:18Long-running consumers
8. 31:31Messenger challenges
9. 38:42Performance and transport
10. 44:46Q&A

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